Quotes

The Making of a Manager, Page 185

Having a great bench is one of the strongest signs of stellar leadership because it means the team you’ve built can steer the ship and thrive, even if you are not at the helm.

Managing Up, Page 185

While sticking things out is a noble and often useful tenet… quitting is also empowering.

Decisive, Page 185

This is one of the classic tensions of management: You want to encourage people to use their judgment, but you also need your team members’ judgments to be correct and consistent.

First, Break All The Rules, Page 186

As with all focus-on-strengths strategies, devising a support system is more productive and more fun than trying to fix the weakness.

Reset, Page 186

When you’re in charge of something, you act with more conscientiousness – and tap more of your skills – than if you’re a cog in the machine.

Grit, Page 186

…when you have setbacks and failures, you can’t overreact to them. You need to step back, analyze them, and learn from them… you also need to stay optimistic.

Managing Up, Page 186

There are times when quitting is and should be the best course of action.

High Performance Habits, Page 186

Putting in longer hours is almost always the wrong answer if you want to reach balance, happiness, or sustained high performance.

Decisive, Page 186

When we identify and enshrine our priorities, our decisions are more consistent and less agonizing.

Stumbling on Happiness, Page 186

…studies show that the mere act of explaining an unpleasant event can help to defang it.